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16091426 No.16091426 [Reply] [Original]

What is the comparative form of "innermost"?

E.g.: "He entered an -------- circle of Hell."

>> No.16091439
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... or some word of equivalent meaning

>> No.16091458

>>16091426
Final.

Focus on what made him go there mentally, not the wording of this shit.

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>>16091439
Innermost is superlative, which wouldn't be comparable. You're thinking of 'more inner', though incidentally inner itself isn't comparable so you'd have to say 'more central', 'deeper' or some such.

>> No.16091507

>>16091492
You can say more inward

But yeah not aware of an English adverb meaning "inward" that has a comparative (like inwarder). I think most adverbs use "more" to intensify. Sometimes "ever more" or "more and more" is used to indicate that the rate of change itself is increasing.

>> No.16091527

>>16091426
>He entered the deepest circle of Hell.

>> No.16091552

>>16091426
>YOU'RE A WHITE WHALE

>> No.16092163

>>16091492
>>16091507
>not aware of an English adverb meaning "inward" that has a comparative
A shame if there aren't any, considering the goodness of "innermost".

>> No.16092266

>>16091426
Interior?

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>>16091426
innermostest

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>most of /lit/ doesn't know what comparative means.
>these are the people you talk to about literature.

>> No.16092325

>>16091426
well you wouldn't say "an innermost" because there's only one most inner circle.

>> No.16092349

Innermore

>> No.16092387

>>16091426
isn't "most" comparitive? just say the innermost circle?

>> No.16092552

>>16091426
People seem to find this question ambiguous. Are you looking for a synonym for innermost? (In which case you're using the term 'comparative' incorrectly.) Are you trying to describe the most inner circle or all circles? Or are you trying to describe a circle that is more central than another but not the most central? To reiterate, innermost is a superlative and can only refer to THE most inner circle. In which case, use innermost. If you are looking to describe a passage between circles midway through the journey just say the fucking next circle: e.g. "to the fourth cavern so we downward passed/winning new reaches of the doleful shore" as Sibbald's Dante has it.

>> No.16092603

The core?

>> No.16092767

>>16092349
>innermore

Ah yes, a word, like bon viveur, that only exists as a result of the fatuous attempts of the British middle class to sound educated.

>> No.16092788

>>16092767
t. Brainlet burger

>> No.16092799

>>16091426
More fundamental?

>> No.16093371

>>16092277
most innermostable

>> No.16095205

>>16092349
(Quoth the Burger)

>> No.16095736 [DELETED] 

>>16091426
innermore

>> No.16095758

>>16091426
"in her more"

>> No.16095771 [DELETED] 

>>16091426
>>E.g.: "He entered an -------- circle of Hell."
shouldnt the sentence have be comparing two things? i think it ought to read something like "He entered a circle ____ to the last" in which case interior, innermore, or medial could be used.

>> No.16095778

>>16091426
>>E.g.: "He entered an -------- circle of Hell."
shouldnt the sentence be comparing two things? i think it ought to read something like "He entered a circle ____ to the last" in which case interior, innermore, or medial could be used.